Dual Career Program

A Note to Administrators About the Dual Career Program

The Office of the Provost has long recognized dual career partner assistance as a crucial element in recruiting and retaining its stellar faculty. We take great pride in working collaboratively with the schools and colleges to provide an excellent dual career program and in devoting considerable resources to the success of the program.

If you are a department chair or search committee chair, you should become familiar with your school or college's procedures for assisting dual career partners. If you don't already have a copy of "University of Michigan Dual Career Program: Roles and Responsibilities & Steps in the Process," which is for University administrators, call 734.647-8788 to request a copy.

If you have learned of a dual career partner who needs or will need assistance beyond what you or the department or academic program can offer, you should contact your dean’s office. Most of the schools and colleges have designated responsibility for handling requests for dual career assistance to one or more associate deans. If needed, the designated person will contact the Office of the Provost on your behalf.

The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, the Medical School, and the College of Engineering each employ an academic dual career coordinator who is the first point of contact for dual career assistance in these areas and who is the primary link to the Provost's Office.

We are pleased to work with your deans' offices and, where appropriate, with you to help recruit and retain a world-class faculty.

Provost's Office Liaisons With the Deans' Offices or the Director of Academic Dual Career Services (LSA, Medicine, Engineering)

Department chairs, search committee chairs, or other administrators in the Medical School and Engineering should contact Melissa Dorfman, Director of the Academic Dual Career Program for Medical School/Engineering, at dorfmanm@umich.edu or 734.615.6417 or 734.647.7015. Those in LSA should contact the appropriate associate dean (humanities, natural sciences, or social sciences).

In the Office of the Provost, School/College liaison assignments for dual career matters are specified below:

Catherine Shaw, Assistant Vice Provost for Academic and Faculty Affairs
(cashaw@umich.edu or 734.763-0380)

School of Education
School of Information
School of Kinesiology
Law School
College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
School of Natural Resources and Environment
School of Nursing
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
School of Social Work


Glenda Haskell, Assistant Vice Provost for Academic and Faculty Affairs (haskell@umich.edu or 734.936-3546)

A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
School of Art and Design
Stephen M. Ross School of Business
School of Dentistry
College of Engineering
Medical School
School of Music, Theatre & Dance
College of Pharmacy
School of Public Health

DUAL CAREER PROGRAM